2026학년도 수능 영어 빈칸 변형 (30-42번)

____ ethics is an ethical theory that takes into account the context of a situation or an act when judging whether it is ethical.

Supporters of this theory willingly permit casting aside absolute ____ standards.

In the absence of a ____ standard or law, what matters is the outcome or consequences; so, the end justifies the means.

____ the following contrasting realities can help illustrate the application of situational ethics.

In a pickup game of basketball played among ____ everyone is expected to call his or her own fouls or acknowledge knocking the ball out-of-bounds.

Caring about one’s friends and maybe getting to keep playing with the group ____ to these actions.

But, once an organized game is played ____ officials, most athletes will not admit to the same fouls or violations as the end goal of winning is more important than expressing concern for competitors.

____ ethics has been extended by many athletes and coaches to mean trying to get away with as many actions on the field or court as possible to gain competitive advantages.

The early grain trade firms were active in both surplus-producing and ____ deficit regions, and these firms made it their business to know the state of supply and demand in both.

Because this information was the key ____ their profitability, these firms worked in relative secrecy, frequently built on family ties, trust, and loyalty.

In addition, these firms ____ able to benefit from the rise of commodity exchanges and commodities futures markets that emerged in the mid-1800s.

Agricultural markets are naturally unstable, due to changes in ____ size that result from variable weather patterns and other factors.

Locking-in prices by buying and selling grain for ____ delivery helped these firms to minimize such risks.

It made sense for the grain trading companies to manage their risks within a single firm that was operating in more than one country, rather than operating as independent national ____ trading with each other.

Their ____ to information in multiple markets enabled them to easily cover the risks associated with agricultural commodity trade.

The basic guidelines for good style are not mysterious; in fact, you use ____ every day in conversation.

In conversation and in writing, we all rely heavily on cooperation to make sense of exchanges, and a polished practical style makes ____ easier.

Writers develop such a style by acknowledging that readers expect the ____ things that listeners expect in conversation: clarity, relevance, and proportion.

If you listen to someone who is not clear, who cannot stay on the topic, or who offers too much or too little information, you will quickly lose interest in ____ conversation.

Writers, too, need to be clear, ____ on the topic, and give information appropriately.

In fact, this attention to audience and appropriateness may be even more important in writing than in conversation because writing does not permit the nonverbal communication and immediate feedback that are part of ____

As writers, we have to anticipate the absent reader’s ____ ; in effect, we have to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation.

Giving clients sufficient opportunity to react to your ____ while in progress is a key to professional success.

Similarly, involving prospective ____ users as well as clients is even more valuable in the long run.

Say your ____ is a large corporation, such as a health care provider.

While the hospital administration may serve as your ____ no doubt the perspectives of administration personnel will differ significantly from those of doctors, interns, residents, nurses, and other medical staff who use the building regularly.

In addition, the experiences of patients and visitors who use the building irregularly, often as a result of life-threatening emergencies, are ____ different as well.

Understanding how each type of user experiences the current medical environment as well ____ how each reacts to your prospective designs inevitably produces a better building.

People are likely to be more satisfied with a new building or addition if they have been consulted in the design ____

For a large institution, this can translate into increased productivity on the job, reduced absenteeism, less ____ and lower costs.

Kant was a strong defender of the rule of law as the ultimate guarantee, not only of security and ____ but also of freedom.

He believed that human societies were moving towards more rational forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because only ____ frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to co-operate.

However, his belief ____ inevitable progress was not based on an optimistic or high-minded view of human nature.

____ the contrary, it comes close to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent and conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in order to secure peace.

We cannot count on people’s benevolence or goodwill, but even ‘a nation ____ devils’ can live in harmony in a legal system that binds every citizen equally.

Ideally, the law is the ____ of those political principles that all rational beings would freely choose.

If such laws forbid them to do something that they would not rationally choose to do anyway, ____ the law cannot be understood as a restraint on their freedom.

There are few of us who don’t at least want to make time for self-care ____ such as exercise, hobbies, or relaxation.

We start each day with the best of intentions but then get stuck by the flood of email messages or pulled ____ an unexpected meeting.

As we struggle to reprioritize so we can get everything done before our deadlines, often our self-care activities ____ the first thing to be given up.

No matter how much we plan, we all occasionally have days when that ____

In the short term, the impact of missing that grant deadline may be greater than the impact of missing a ____ class.

But it’s important to recognize the cumulative ____ of not prioritizing self-care and to make sure that in the long term, this is the exception rather than the norm.

____ usually think of a clock as a physical thing, like an alarm clock or a wristwatch.

But a clock is really a process ____ in a machine, and the nature of that process is repetitive.

A clock can be almost any process that repeats itself over ____ over again for an indefinite period.

Water clocks drip ____ a steady pace; quartz crystals vibrate regularly.

____ it is almost impossible to think of a clock that does not depend on a repetitive cycle of events.

The only ____ that comes to mind readily is a candle marked in hours.

But here ____ there is iteration ― the repeated burning of molecules of wax ― so this too is an iterative process, although at first masked.

The use of radiocarbon dating is another, much longer scale clock that also appears to ____ like this.

____ seems to yield a smooth time scale but in fact does not: the decay of atoms of carbon-14 is repetitive, although on a large scale it gives the appearance of being continuous.

Philosophy ____ us to ask much broader questions than many other scientific disciplines.

It is capable of looking at the bigger picture and providing important insights into the relationships between ____ areas of knowledge.

____ is particularly important for the interdisciplinary efforts of cognitive science, where it helps to bridge gaps between different disciplines and pioneer new ways for research.

Unlike scientific methods, philosophizing is a non-empirical approach that attempts to ____ concepts through logical thinking and argumentation.

Philosophers tend to ask questions rather than provide definitive answers, and their contributions often consist of challenging established assumptions ____ proposing new research approaches.

However, for a more ____ understanding of the nature of consciousness, close collaboration between philosophy and neuroscience is required.

This means that while philosophy can provide valuable insights into theoretical concepts and ____ ethical questions, it needs to be supplemented by empirical findings and experiments to reach a more comprehensive understanding.

While stories clearly dominate statistics from both memorability and persuasiveness perspectives, ____ rarely a battle between facts and anecdotes ― or even facts and other facts.

The ____ clash is actually between stories: the predominant incumbent and a new challenger.

As storytelling creatures, ____ routinely form narratives to help us understand the world around us.

When we experience different events or ____ various facts, our minds seek to make sense of them by forming stories around them.

For ____ if you have had some bad experiences with graduates from a particular university, you may create a negative narrative in your mind about people who went to that school.

Suddenly, you judge ____ from the university by what you’ve experienced on just a few unfortunate occasions.

Sometimes these internal narratives we form not only shape our beliefs and opinions but also become deeply rooted in our ____

For example, the narratives you have ____ around gun control or climate change are most likely related with your political ideology ― who you are as an individual.

A video ____ has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space.

The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only way in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can ____ perceived.

As in the real world, perception requires ____

The difference is that the action in the game world can only be explored through the virtual bodily ____ of the avatar.

Players extend their perceptual ____ into the game, encompassing the available actions of the avatar.

The feedback loop of perception and action ____ enables you to navigate the world around you is now one step removed: instead of perceiving primarily through interaction of your own body with the external world, you’re perceiving the game world through interaction of the avatar.

The entire perceptual ____ has been extended into the game world.

In modern societies, the performing arts form a distinct category of public entertainment in opposition to the mass distribution through the media of expertly staged performances which have been recorded ____ edited.

By contrast, ____ ballet, circus, concert, rodeo, storytelling, etc., unfold their signs in real space and time, and engage audiences who respond cognitively and emotionally on the spot.

Performers and ____ are involved in shared enjoyment.

But sometimes frustration occurs within the ____ of such ritualistic events.

In industrialized ____ computerized cultures, the performing arts become economically unstable because the institutions which sustain them increasingly depend on public and corporate funding.

However, they retain their power of fascination for large, if not massive audiences, who prize the experiential, risk-loaded and ____ event quality they afford.

In traditional and local cultures, performances still survive and provide their audiences with a unique fulfillment in ____ scale, economically sustainable institutional settings.

In a situation of financial challenges due to reliance on external ____ the performing arts, which provide unique and live experiences, secure audiences who value those experiences.

____ is an obvious problem with the history of dress in all of its displays and that is, although textiles survive from early periods and cultures of recorded history, actual garments do not provide an uninterrupted flow of evidence across the same long time-span.

Therefore, to give the study of ____ equal significance to other areas such as architecture, painting, prints, drawings and sculpture, it was inevitable that these other areas would provide much of the source material.

The history of surviving dress really only ____ in the 17th century, and like all artefacts described as fine or decorative art, is a highly visual subject.

However, unlike most of the categories of collection and study that make up those areas, it is ____ rather than static.

Garments should be seen in movement on a human ____ not frozen on a display figure.

This is one of the many difficulties when curating collections of costume and also why some ____ writers find costume collections physically and intellectually lifeless.

Fortunately, in the period after 1660, when more items of dress survive to enrich our understanding of the history of the subject, there are also many painted, printed, photographed and filmed sources ____ evidence of people in clothing, caught in movement.

Often a variety of different types of illustrative examples will provide evidence about how a garment was worn ____ the period in which it was made.

Without the information contained in art in all ____ its forms, from drawing to sculpture, it is likely that displays of historic dress would be awkward imitations of the intentions of their original makers and owners.